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A feria (fair in English) is an annual local festival in Spain and southern France, characterized by bullfights, bull running in the streets, bodegas (outdoor bars or cellars with festive music) and bandas.
The category of Fiesta of National Tourist Interest (Spanish: Fiestas de Interés Turístico Nacional, Basque: Interes Turistiko Nazionaleko Jaiak, Catalan: Festes d'Interès Turístic Nacional / Valencian: Festes d'Interés Turístic Nacional, Galician: Festas de Interese Turístico Nacional) in Spain is an honorary designation given by the General Secretariat of Tourism of the Ministry of ...
The Harvard Dictionary of Music explains the etymology feria as "the reverse of the original meaning of L. feria, i.e., festival day.The reversal came about by extending the use of the word from Sunday to the other days, Sunday being named feria prima, Monday feria secunda, Tuesday feria tertia, etc." [4]
In most of the Spanish States, the dinero was superseded by the maravedí and then the real as the unit of account. However, in Principality of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, the currency system based on the dinero continued, with twelve dineros to the sou and six sous the peseta. Note that in modern Spanish, "dinero" means "money".
The basic and most prevalent unit of Spanish currency before the Euro was the Peseta. The first Peseta coins were minted in 1869, and the last were minted in 2011. Peseta banknotes were first printed in 1874 and were phased out with the introduction of the Euro. [1]
The Seville Fair (officially and in Spanish: Feria de Abril de Sevilla, 'Seville April Fair') is held in the Andalusian capital of Seville, Spain. The fair generally begins two weeks after the Semana Santa, or Easter Holy Week. The fair officially begins at midnight on Saturday, and runs seven days, ending on the following Saturday.
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Dinero is the Spanish word for money. Dinero may refer to: Spanish dinero, Spanish (and empire) currency during medieval and early modern period; Dinero (cache simulator), a trace-driven uniprocessor cache simulator "Dinero" (Jennifer Lopez song), released in 2018; Dinero, a Colombian financial magazine